smolsite.zip
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SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
27 positive, 35 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 18 critical, out of 82 comments about the project. Thread score +0.20.
Idea: 19 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 13 againstPerformance: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun, clever, and smart idea
From 4 comments
this is really cool and I think it feel like how show HN should be instead of marketing ploy for other orgs pushing their product.
debarshri on HNCoolest application of those data URL ever. It's amazing how simple this idea is yet I have NEVER considered trying it out. I am not surprised this idea has already been done…
koito17 on HNThis is so much fun! Great idea!
4RealFreedom on HNThis is genious
mixeden on HN
Similar earlier projects exist such as nopaste, paste and itty.bitty.site
From 3 comments
Nice, reminds me of nopaste [0], which is a pastebin that stores the text in the url compressed with lzma and encoded with base64. [0] https://nopaste.boris.sh/
SushiHippie on HNReminded me of a site from the creator of Advent of Code to share solutions of the puzzles (or any plaintext for that matter). https://topaz.github.io/paste/
mazokum on HNSee also: https://itty.bitty.site/
stolenmerch on HN
Objections
Malicious payloads and phishing could be hosted via the URL
From 3 comments
I immediately thought this is a great way to ship malicious payloads to an unexpected party. A good WAF would block it as sus, but a few tricks could probably get around that as…
grepfru_it on HNI look forward to the phishinhg. Hopefully you can block known bad hashes.
xxdesmus on HNLiterally designed around XSS
rswskg on HN
Moderation and takedown are hard; the .zip TLD is abused by malware
From 3 comments
The difference is that if GitHub is found distributing malware on GitHub pages, you can notify them, they verify it, take it down, and open a process to eventually ban the…
ncruces on HNcool. alas, i've got all .zip domains blocked because the vast majority of them are used by malware people trying to trick someone into "downloading a zip file" (this was so…
masukomi on HNNeeds to support DMCA takedown notices
markburns on HN
Requests
Support linking to other sites or a URL shortener
From 2 comments
I still have control over the domain I bought a few years ago to implement something similar. What ultimately stopped me is that on a site of this type you can't really include…
Tade0 on HNwould be useful with url shortener.
m00dy on HN
Questions
Does it handle zip bombs and size limits
From 2 comments
how does it react to a zip bomb?
lagniappe on HNisn't there a size limit?
MoElmredi on HN
Alternatives named
Data URIs
From 1 comment
Just in case anyone doesn't already know, you can do that with a data uri as well: data:text/html,<h1>My%20small%20website</h1><p>Look,%20it's%20real!</p> You can use a data uri…
dmazzoni on HN
nopaste
From 1 comment
Nice, reminds me of nopaste [0], which is a pastebin that stores the text in the url compressed with lzma and encoded with base64. [0] https://nopaste.boris.sh/
SushiHippie on HN
itty.bitty.site
From 1 comment
See also: https://itty.bitty.site/
stolenmerch on HN